Range Commanders Council 2015

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1 Federal Aviation Administration Range Commanders Council 2015 : Edwards Air Force Base, California Patricia C. Hynes, Ph.D. New Mexico State University 1

2 The Role of Commercial Spaceports in Securing America s Future: An Economically Strong America is Essential to a Secure America Presentation Overview Current Environment Specific to Commercial and Federal Launch Sites FAA COE-CST Framework for Commercial Spaceport Operations Going Forward 2

3 CURRENT ENVIRONMENT Douglas L. Loverro Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense for Space Policy There is an intersection between defense needs and commercial needs that we need to learn how to exploit. You cannot exploit them if you are fearful of them. You can only exploit them by inviting them in. Oct. 16, ISPCS Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense Loverro 3

4 CURRENT ENVIRONMENT National Space Policy- June 28, 2010 To promote a robust domestic commercial space industry: Goal: Energize competitive domestic industries to participate in global markets and advance the development of: satellite manufacturing; satellitebased services; space launch; terrestrial applications; and increased entrepreneurship. 6

5 CURRENT ENVIRONMENT Question? How have DoD, FAA & NASA implemented these policies? Program Investments 7

6 CURRENT ENVIRONMENT US Government Investment in Commercial Space Agency Program Budget DARPA XS-1 $37m FAA AST COE-CST $1m/yr for 10 years NASA Commercial Crew Commercial Cargo Total $15.07b

7 CURRENT ENVIRONMENT NASA Commercial Cargo Commercial Cargo: SpaceX-SL 37 Kennedy Space Center Falcon/Dragon 4 successful dockings with ISS Orbital Sciences-Mid-Atlantic Regional Spaceport MARS Antares/Cygnus 3 successful dockings Catastrophic failure October 28, 2014 Replacing suspect AJ-26 engine with RD-181 9

8 CURRENT ENVIRONMENT 10 NASA Commercial Crew CCtCap: $6.8 billion awarded Sept to Boeing and SpaceX SpaceX- $2.6b Commercial Spaceport investments Leasing orbital site at Vandenberg & 2 sites at Cape Canaveral Brownsville Spaceport commercial oribtal site Leasing high-altitude sub-orbital facility at Spaceport America test site 10

9 CURRENT ENVIRONMENT After delivering more than 5,000 pounds of supplies and experiments to the International Space Station last month, the SpaceX Dragon cargo spacecraft is set to leave the orbiting laboratory on Tuesday, Feb. 10. Photo Courtesy: SpaceNews 12

10 CURRENT ENVIRONMENT DARPA XS-1- $37 million The Boeing Company-working with Blue Origin Masten Space Systems-working with XCOR Aerospace Northrop Grumman Corporation-working with Virgin Galactic Likely costs & range schedule will determine if these companies use commercial launch sites 13

11 FRAMEWORK 14 FAA AST COE-CST Commercial Space Transportation - AST Division of FAA FAA Center of Excellence for Commercial Space Transportation Established in 2010 Funding commitment $1m a year for 10 years 14

12 FRAMEWORK 15 FAA AST - Research Themes Framework for Spaceport Operations 15

13 FRAMEWORK Nine FAA Licensed Spaceports in US 16

14 FRAMEWORK Task 1 Develop a Framework to capture the Body of Knowledge for Spaceport Operations Best Practices 17

15 FRAMEWORK Results Current Status: RCC documents in data base Note: first group we contacted was the RCC Why? Start with the best! Online searchable data base of 124 categories related to spaceport operations. 19

16 GOING FORWARD RCC Contributions to the Digital Collection: We Need Your Help Framework to Capture a Body of Knowledge for Commercial Spaceports Documents URLs Policies Practices MOUs/MOAs What Else? 20

17 GOING FORWARD COE-CST Roadmap for FAA-AST Spaceport Incidents at MARS and Mojave NTSB report will take a year FAA is not required to take any recommendations from report If a regulation emerges it will be narrowly drafted to address a specific finding. Areas for further development of the Digital Collection. 22

18 GOING FORWARD 2014 Spaceport Accidents Orbital Sciences: October 28, 2014, accident at MARS destroyed Antares rocket unmanned Cygnus Spacecraft Orbital is leading investigation. Virgin Galactic: October 31, 2014, fatal accident involving Virgin Galactic s SpaceShipTwo at Mojave Air and Space Port. NTSB is leading investigation. Army: August 25 th Kodiak Launch Complex Army leading the investigation. 23

19 GOING FORWARD Spaceport Investigations NTSB Report Preliminary Findings: Pilot error Orbital Report Replace AJ-26 with RD

20 GOING FORWARD Going Forward Synergy among all installations government and commercial to eventually work for the common good of the nation s space transportation system. 26

21 GOING FORWARD Launcher 1 27

22 GOING FORWARD Conclusion Enable & Facilitate education of a new workforce; use the Digital Collection Promote Best Practices by encouraging industry & government to share what they can to keep this collection relevant Reach Out Welcoming environment you did it for me- who is next? What s next? Go visit Mojave Air and Space Port. 28